Patch "x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-boot-add-missing-declaration-of-string-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Aug  9 10:32:06 PDT 2017
From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 10:38:31 +0100
Subject: x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>


[ Upstream commit fac69d0efad08fc15e4dbfc116830782acc0dc9a ]

Add the missing declarations of basic string functions to string.h to allow
a clean build.

Fixes: 5be865661516 ("String-handling functions for the new x86 setup code.")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483781911-21399-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/string.c |    1 +
 arch/x86/boot/string.h |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/boot/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include "ctype.h"
+#include "string.h"
 
 int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
 {
--- a/arch/x86/boot/string.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.h
@@ -18,4 +18,13 @@ int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s
 #define memset(d,c,l) __builtin_memset(d,c,l)
 #define memcmp	__builtin_memcmp
 
+extern int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2);
+extern int strncmp(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t count);
+extern size_t strlen(const char *s);
+extern char *strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2);
+extern size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t maxlen);
+extern unsigned int atou(const char *s);
+extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *cp, char **endp,
+					  unsigned int base);
+
 #endif /* BOOT_STRING_H */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hofrat@osadl.org are

queue-4.9/x86-boot-add-missing-declaration-of-string-functions.patch